EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has introduced aboard Carissa Hope Lynch as Inventive Director, UK, and Lucy Dertavitian as Head of Content material, MENA (Center East North Africa).
Lynch joins Miramax’s London workplace the place she is going to oversee improvement and manufacturing within the UK, the place the corporate desires to strengthen its presence. She’s going to report on to Alix Jaffe, Miramax President of Tv, and can work alongside Rosie Collins, Inventive Government, UK, to adapt Miramax’s bountiful movie library into TV tasks.
Beforehand, she oversaw the event and manufacturing slate at UK indie Eleven Movie, the place she labored with main networks and platforms together with Channel 4, Movie 4, Sony, BBC, Sky, Paramount+, and Netflix. She has labored on tasks together with Stags (Paramount+, 2024), Purple Rose (BBC/Netflix, 2022), and White Stork (Netflix).
Primarily based out of Doha, Qatar, Dertavitian will oversee the Center East and North Africa (MENA) the place she is going to collaborate with native producers, writers, and administrators to adapt Miramax Library IP into Arabic-language sequence in addition to creating authentic tasks with native expertise to promote to consumers all through the area.
With a background in improvement at MBC Studios and OSN, Dertavitian has expertise working with each native Arabic sequence and premium local-to-global English-language content material. She’s going to report back to Mirsada Abdool Raman, Senior Vice President, Tv.
The Center East is one other precedence space for the beIN and Paramount-backed outfit.
“We’re thrilled to announce the staff main Miramax Tv’s worldwide growth, with Carissa helming the UK and Lucy guiding our efforts throughout MENA,” mentioned Alix Jaffe, President, Miramax Tv. “This staff shall be instrumental in constructing our world footprint, demonstrating our dedication to reimagining our iconic IP and creating authentic tales for brand new audiences all over the world. We’re excited for the chance forward.”
Miramax’s current TV credit embrace Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated The Gentleman, which was renewed for season two at Netflix with manufacturing underway. Miramax additionally acquired CEO Jonathan Glickman’s place — by way of his outfit Panoramic Media — within the present Zero Day with Robert DeNiro, in addition to Jenna Ortega hit comedy Wednesday. On the movie facet, Miramax has greenlit a sequel to the hit movie The Beekeeper (which grossed greater than $160M worldwide) with Jason Statham returning together with Timo Tjahjanto directing.
